well,naturally. you're a third wave feminist so everything is about circular logic with you. it allows you to win the argument in your own mind without the effort.
Hardly.
I don't think the Frankenstein Monster in Penny Dreadful is an MRA.
I find "empowered" Belle in Once Upon a Time to be annoying and cold.
I didn't like the 2016 Ghostbusters, which apparently is a pre-requisite.
And I hated both Cursed (or as I call it "Smurfette werewolf") and Syfy's Van Helsing. If you're going to do female Van Helsing, make her like Professor Abraham, damn it. Not a Walking Dead knock off. I'd rather an older woman play a Peter Cushing style Van Helsing.
I'm no third wave Feminist. I'm a Mary Wollstoncraft feminist (that's late eighteenth century / early nineteenth century). I believe in the actual equality of the genders, not the "women are better than men" garbage. Don't insult me like that. And don't slap a label on me just to dismiss my views.
And honestly I don't see anything wrong with a female Mummy. A mummy is a type of monster, not a particular character. You never see people complain about female ghosts or female vampires. I find the complaints to be... needless to say, weird. There have been female mummies in the past.
If the 1990s Mummy movie actually had the plot of the Karloff film it might raise my eyebrows but really it didn't.
I don't want a female mummy to be a gimmick either but if you keep reacting this way we'll get another idiotic gimmick marketing of how if we don't like it we're anti-woman. I don't like being told I'm a "Traitor" for not liking the 2016 Ghostbusters so kindly don't be part of the problem that leads to people turning a new monster movie into a cause.
If it sucks it sucks. But it shouldn't be dismissed right out of hand just because the lead is female. A female Ghostbusters COULD have been good but it was just terribly written. A female Van Helsing COULD have been good but Syfy / Universal has no faith in the original character and turned her into a gimmicky walking dead knock off with Mary Sue magical blood, when what I yearned for was closer to Tilda Swinton dressed in nineteenth century drag, kindly and seemingly doctor by day, and Dracula's enemy and intellectual equal by night.
I'm bitter about Syfy's Van Helsing becuase it could have been good. Female isn't the problem. Treating gender like a gimmick is, making it the full sum of the character, is.
Let's not focus on the reproductive organs but instead focus on if it's good or bad. Sony's Ghostbusters reboot = bad.
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joshua_carpino
8 years ago
"I believe in the actual equality of the genders, not the "women are better than men" garbage."
could have fooled me,but if so then good.
"Don't insult me like that. And don't slap a label on me just to dismiss my views."
but that's what you did to me.
"If it sucks it sucks."
yes.
"Female isn't the problem. Treating gender like a gimmick is, making it the full sum of the character, is."
yes.
"Let's not focus on the reproductive organs but instead focus on if it's good or bad. Sony's Ghostbusters reboot = bad."
couldn't agree with you more.
"A female Ghostbusters COULD have been good but it was just terribly written. A female Van Helsing COULD have been good"
true.
"And honestly I don't see anything wrong with a female Mummy."
if i'm going to be totally objective,there isn't. look,the way i reacted to this gets back to the political climate and things like the ghostbusters remake and the people who championed it. like i said,THE PLACE IT'S COMING FROM.
you seem like a very different person now than the one who started this thread, and if you feel this way about these things including being called a traitor by third wave SJW feminists then what the hell are we fighting about? i'm not sure why you began with this knee jerk hyper defensive/aggresive attitude if you actually know where i'm coming from. and i certainly don't think that objecting to the sort of gimmicky pandering that you and i have now both cited is danger of turning these franchises into a cause,leastways not one opposite from the one that they now are. i initially recognized you as someone part of the problem that IS turning them into a cause. now i don't know what to think.
"I'd rather an older woman play a Peter Cushing style Van Helsing."
i think that's a fine idea.
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CountVladDracula
8 years ago
"I believe in the actual equality of the genders, not the "women are better than men" garbage."
could have fooled me,but if so then good.
When did I say anyting that indicated otherwise?
if i'm going to be totally objective,there isn't. look,the way i reacted to this gets back to the political climate and things like the ghostbusters remake and the people who championed it. like i said,THE PLACE IT'S COMING FROM.
you seem like a very different person now than the one who started this thread, and if you feel this way about these things including being called a traitor by third wave SJW feminists then what the hell are we fighting about? i'm not sure why you began with this knee jerk hyper defensive/aggresive attitude if you actually know where i'm coming from. and i certainly don't think that objecting to the sort of gimmicky pandering that you and i have now both cited is danger of turning these franchises into a cause,leastways not one opposite from the one that they now are. i initially recognized you as someone part of the problem that IS turning them into a cause. now i don't know what to think.
Because I have seen female mummies before and to react negatively just because it is female is to feed right into the hands of those who would make it a gimmick. Don't let them. Let the movie stand on it's own for better or worse. Don't feed into the "War of the sexes" angle. That should not be a factor here.
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